Pricing, Not Sales Theatre
Why the same 'website' costs 15,000 or 5,00,000 in Dhanmondi
Ask about the web design price in Dhanmondi at any cafe on Road 27. Say 'website koto taka?' and within an hour you'll hear five different numbers from five different freelancers. The market isn't dishonest. The problem is that nobody agrees on what the word 'website' means.
A 15,000 BDT site usually means a free WordPress theme, installed by someone learning on your project. A 5,00,000 BDT site usually means an agency with 12 staff billing for their meeting time. Neither of those is what most Dhanmondi businesses actually need.
I'm RH Fardin, a solo website designer and developer. I publish my pricing in public because hiding it wastes everybody's time. From me, the floor for a real, custom-designed, mobile-first business website is 50,000 BDT. Below that number, you're paying for a template someone copy-pasted. That isn't design work, strategy or testing. It isn't a person who picks up the phone six months later either.
Above 50,000, the number changes mostly with content depth and features. Take a Dhanmondi dental clinic with a homepage, services, doctor profiles, an appointment form and a blog. That sits comfortably in the 90,000 tier. Now take a boutique on Satmasjid Road that wants product listings, bKash and Nagad checkout, COD logic and Pathao courier integration. That moves into the 1,50,000 tier.
Anything truly custom starts at 3,00,000 BDT, like booking systems, member portals or multi-vendor logic. I quote those after a proper scoping conversation.
Payment is 50% advance and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. There's no surprise invoice at handover and no 'platform fee' added on. There's no monthly retainer hidden in the contract either. If the design doesn't get your written approval before development starts, you don't pay the rest. That guarantee is the whole reason I can charge what I charge. I only get the second half if the work is truly good.
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